From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: School absenteeism is a significant problem, and students who are frequently absent from school more often have symptoms of psychiatric disorders. A new…
From the Association of Psychological Science press release: People resist medical screening, or don’t call back for the results, because they don’t want to know they’re sick or at risk for a disease. But many…
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: Most adults can’t recall events that took place before they were 3 or 4 years old—a phenomenon called childhood amnesia. While some people…
From the McGill University press release: Imagine you’re a hockey goalie, and two opposing players are breaking in alone on you, passing the puck back and forth. You’re aware of the linesman skating in on…
From the University of Virginia Darden School of Business press release: The holiday gift-giving season is here. In a world that is short on time but long on merchandise, how can holiday shoppers make quick…
From the Oxford University press release: Being told that a work of art is authentic or fake alters the brain’s response to the visual content of artwork, Oxford University academics have found. Fourteen participants were…
From the University of British Columbia press release: Text messaging leads people to be more deceitful when compared to other modes of communication, according to Sauder School of Business researchers at the University of British…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via MedicalXpress: New research suggests that, in people who don’t currently have memory problems, those with smaller regions of the brain’s cortex may be more likely to…
From the University of Southampton press release via AlphaGalileo: With the festive holiday just around the corner many people will be thinking back to Christmases gone by with a nostalgic longing. Now a new study,…
From the UCLA press release: At UCLA’s Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain signal changes that take place during mental activity. They then employ computerized machine learning…